The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering whether homeowners’ associations and their maintenance contractors can be held liable for injuries caused when they fail to clear snow and ice from sidewalks that they own and have pledged to maintain.
In Qian v. Toll Brothers, an attorney representing a woman injured in a slip-and-fall on an icy sidewalk in a private residential community asked the high court on March 16 to overturn two lower court rulings that said prior case law from the court was clear and that the plaintiff’s homeowners’ association and the companies contracted to keep the sidewalks clear could not be held liable.
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